Multimedia Collection
Hung Liu
(A World of Art series)
VHS
30 minutes
NX504 .W641 1996 tape 4
Born in China in 1948, painter Hung Liu was a high school student when the Cultural Revolution began. After four years of "re-education" as a peasant worker, she received formal art training in the strict Russian Social Realist style and produced propaganda art for Mao's new society. Liu emigrated to the U.S. in 1984. In her work today she comments upon traditional Chinese society, particularly the subjugation of women. For a show at the Steinbaum Krauss Gallery in New York, she paints a series of works depicting the famous "Last Emperor" and his court. The program focuses on Three Fujins, a painting of the Emperor's three concubines, which uses virually all of the major principles of design and addresses the questions of unity and variety in both composition and theme.
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